Regional market building is a social process. Market officials pursue integration objectives in the midst of unique institutional, cultural and economic contexts. Influenced by those contexts, they design markets with similar objectives but remarkably different architectures. This article offers...

Are regional trade agreements (RTAs) carefully crafted projects that systematically advance their member states’ interests or do they instead generate outcomes that frustrate those interests? Works on the most prominent RTA - the European Union - have traditionally been split over this...

Theories of regional integration typically analyze the regional integration process from the perspective of a single discipline, usually economics. However, such one-dimensional analytical frameworks cannot fully capture the richness and complexity of the inherently multi-dimensional regional...